News, interviews and commentary on seafood food safety, seafood sanitation, seafood regulations and health.
By SeafoodSource staff
17 December, 2012
Ocean Beauty Seafoods is voluntarily recalling 371 cases of ready-to-eat
cold smoked salmon products sold in the United States due to possible
contamination by Listeria monocytogenes.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 December, 2012
Two more people are in the intensive care unit at Tauranga Hospital suffering from toxic shellfish poisoning.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 December, 2012
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has issued certification to
Portland, Ore.-based seafood processor Pacific Seafood, after the
company’s Las Vegas facility earned high marks for food safety and
hygiene during a recent inspection.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 December, 2012
Nearly three in five New York City grocery stores and restaurants that
sell seafood have mislabeled part of their stock, substituting varieties
that could cause health problems, according to a new study.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 December, 2012
The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and its Better Seafood Board
(BSB) got some national attention today, as part of a segment on seafood
mislabeling featured on NBC’s “Today” show.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 December, 2012
Commercial shellfish harvesting has resumed in most areas of Tasmania's
east coast but the scallop fishery has closed early because of a toxic
algal bloom.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 December, 2012
A report to be released Tuesday by the Biodiversity Research Institute
in Gorham, Maine, evaluates the amount of mercury in fish species around
the world and suggests that levels of the toxin previously deemed safe
are probably not.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 December, 2012
Where Gulf of Mexico seafood comes from and how it's harvested are becoming less of a mystery.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
03 December, 2012
In Japan, the health benefits of salmon are being stressed in the media during the autumn salmon season.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 November, 2012
The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) is urging anyone, including media
outlets, who is studying the results of a recent Brown University study
on the links between pollutants like mercury poisoning from eating
seafood and health problems to not take the study at face value.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 November, 2012
The Washington Post publishes an article slamming farmed fish, citing outdated research and anti-seafood groups such as Food And Water Watch.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 November, 2012
Tri-Union Seafoods LLC is voluntarily recalling a limited amount of
Chicken of the Sea Brand 7-ounce cans of solid white albacore tuna in
water.
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By SeafoodSource staff
09 November, 2012
The 207 metric tons (MT) of fish seized by Scottish authorities on 6 November in one of the country’s biggest seafood fraud investigations should not be called illegal, according to the Scottish Seafood Association (SSA).
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 November, 2012
A Californian ballot proposing the labeling of genetically modified ingredients in food products has been rejected by the state’s voters.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 November, 2012
More than 200 metric tons (MT) of illegal fish has been seized following one of Scotland’s largest food fraud investigations.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 November, 2012
Provincial government funding of CAD 46,150 will help the Seafood Processors of Newfoundland and Labrador develop a seafood nutritional information package.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 November, 2012
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen are conducting a study to compare the effects on human health of eating farmed salmon fed two different diets.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 October, 2012
Fish from the waters around the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan could
be too radioactive to eat for a decade to come, as samples show that
radioactivity levels remain elevated and show little sign of coming
down, a marine scientist has warned.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 October, 2012
At least 950 people in the Netherlands are now known to have fallen ill
in a salmonella thompson outbreak linked to salmon. Three elderly
victims have died.
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By SeafoodSource staff
16 October, 2012
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has called upon the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to take action on seafood fraud, which she said is
a financial and, in some cases, public health risk to consumers.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 October, 2012
More than 500 people in the Netherlands have now contracted Salmonella infections linked to smoked salmon, and at least one of these patients has died, reported Dutch health officials Saturday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 October, 2012
At Ngoc Sinh Seafoods Trading & Processing Export Enterprise, a
seafood exporter on Vietnam’s southern coast, workers stand on a dirty
floor sorting shrimp one hot September day. There’s trash on the floor,
and flies crawl over baskets of processed shrimp stacked in an unchilled
room in Ca Mau.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 October, 2012
The government of India is hopeful that Japan will lift its ban on the
import of shrimps from India, said director, Export Inspection Council
of India (EICI), S K Saxena.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 October, 2012
After calling nearly 250,000 customers last week to tell them the smoked salmon they had purchased was being recalled for potential Salmonella contamination, Costco has released one of the two recalled brands of the fish back onto the market, and has been informed by health officials that no U.S. illnesses are linked to either product.
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By SeafoodSource staff
09 October, 2012
Pregnant women are told to limit how much fish they eat because many fish are tainted by mercury, which may harm a baby’s brain.
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